The trial: December 1968 -- Red bank: February 1969 to November 1973 -- Prison: November 1973 to May 1980 -- After prison: 1980 to 1984 -- Return to childhood: 1957 to 1968 -- Beginnings of a future: 1984 to 1996
The author reports on "five months of intensive talks" which occurred twenty-seven years after Mary Bell was convicted of murdering two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.--Jacket